the roadmap to national restoration 2014 apr 04
learning righteousness and wickedness from the ten commandments 2012 nov 19
1st commandment: have no other gods before God 2012 nov 20
2nd commandment: you shall not make idols 2012 dec 09
3rd commandment: do not profane YHVH’s name 2012 dec 18
4th commandment: honor the Sabbath day 2012 dec 21
5th commandment: honor your father and mother 2013 jan 07
6th commandment: do not commit murder 2013 jan 16
7th commandment: do not commit adultery 2013 jan 24
8th commandment: do not steal 2013 feb 13
9th commandment: do not bear false witness 2013 feb 25
10th commandment: do not covet 2013 feb 28
conclusion to the commandments, part one 2013 mar 15
Deu 26:16-19 {p}
“This day the Lord your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. Today you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice. Also today the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.” Deu 26:16-19
We saw last time that the one who obeys these commandments – that is, the Ten Commandments, and their explanation of what it means to keep them that Moses has been explaining since Deu 5:1 – is the one who loves the Lord their God with all their heart and with all their soul. Love looks like obedience.
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.” Joh 14:15
The paragraph then concludes with an interesting comparison, one of the teaching tools of Scripture. The people have proclaimed the Lord to be their God (vs. 17), and the Lord has proclaimed the people to be His special people (“segullah,” vs. 18). They entered into a covenant with each other, and each side has promised something. In fact the covenant made on Mt Sinai is in the form of a Hebrew marriage covenant, and both the “husband” (YHVH Elohiym) and the “wife” (Israel) have promised something to the other.
Israel has proclaimed the Lord to be their God, and promised as a result of that, that they would keep His commandments and walk in His ways – the commandments we have been studying for the past five months. The Lord has proclaimed Israel to be His people (who are the children of Israel?), and promised as a result of that, that He would set them high above all the other nations, as a set apart (holy) people to the Lord. When we do our part, He does His part.
Nation, would you be restored to the place of blessing you have formerly enjoyed?
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chr 7:14
Then let the people who have proclaimed the Lord to be their God – not the atheists, unbelievers, and wicked – humble themselves, pray and seek His face, and turn from their wicked ways, in that they have not kept the Ten Commandments that the Lord has commanded His people to keep, and let them begin to walk in them. And He will hear from heaven, He will forgive our sin, and He will heal our land.
THE END.
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